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Here's Denise Thomas and Dr. Ken Harris.

Welcome back.

This is our second hour is Sunday, December 28th, 2025.

We literally have about three more days until we enter what I hope will be for many of us,

a brighter, better, more prosperous and more love filled year.

Speaking of which, for the next hour, we're going to be discussing our top 10 moments of 2025,

the good, the bad, the ugly, we are not about to be whispering.

We're going to be telling the truth, y'all, and we're going to unfilter it.

We're going to hear from both Dr. Ken's perspective as well as my perspective.

That's one thing I really appreciate about Dr. Ken's leadership.

He said, look, if we're going to talk about things like what went wrong,

then we also got to talk about, from a truth standpoint, what do we think are the solutions?

So, Dr. Ken, thank you for holding me accountable of that because over the break,

I had to, because when you asked me, I was like, yeah, I'm ready.

I didn't think about it.

Yep, yep.

So, I had to think about it.

Eight minutes after the hour, it's something that we should all do.

Look at stories that impact the black community.

One of the reasons why we're here is truth unfiltered.

We talk about those issues that are sensitive, those issues that are

not necessarily race-related but more cultural so that we can get a better understanding and a better

camaraderie about this America thing, about being American and being patriotic and loving our

country, loving our community, loving the people and treating people with dignity and respect

that they deserve. We've got some stories from 2025 that really, I believe, show the broadness

and the impact that things that occur in America can have on the black community.

My number one story was something that Denise had mentioned when we were talking earlier about

the overdose crisis hitting older black men.

And so, you were wondering, why does this matter? Well, you got lost of life.

You got family disruptions going on. You got community trauma.

Something that we used to not acknowledge. We were used to the, and many of us were raised by people

from the silent generation. You know, just kind of suck it up and grit and all that determination

and all, but that doesn't always work. Which then goes into something we talked about earlier

with the health insurance issues in the ACA about public health responses that are being overworked.

We've got a number and we've had a number of black men who have died from drug overdoses,

not to the level of whites that have died of drug overdoses by virtual effect. If you look at actual

numbers, we're outnumbered. We're only 13, 14% of the population. So the percentages will always

be larger because that affects the larger amount percentage wise, but in actual numbers, nowhere near.

Fentanyl contamination is causing a huge share of the deaths. I've always argued that needs to change,

that needs to be fixed. We need to stop fentanyl from coming into the country. We also need to stop

people from taking drugs illegal because usually those drugs were taken by buying something online,

buying something from another country, buying something. That was illegal that you weren't supposed

to be able to buy and you got it and it had fentanyl in it. So how do we fix that?

Other than stopping fentanyl from coming into the country and having some type of say no to drugs,

I don't know how we fix it. It's a multi-trillion dollar illegal

business in the world and I don't know as long as we live in a country like America,

these are some of the things we're going to have to deal with. My number two story,

and I think, no, this is going to say really quick. I think before we ask the question,

how are we going to fix it? The most important question that for a number of these topics that we're

going to break down is do the powers that be want to fix it? But continue, Dr. Ken, please.

Well, before we go to break, I want to dive into this one because my number two is about Milwaukee

public schools and the audit that detailed widespread system failures. It impacts because black

kids make up roughly 48% of the population of NPS. Black and brown pushes it over 50. Black

brown Asian pushes it over 50, thousands of students and families. The dysfunction,

the accountability. Go ahead. Go ahead. Don't make it real easy for y'all. We come back from break.

I have two moments that I want to review in addition to Dr. Ken. That is number one,

the missing and murdered black women and girls in Milwaukee. And I am going to give some

proposed solutions. And I do hope that we will have some listener engagement

because what I really want to understand is who's speaking up when black women disappear. And by the way,

I'm going to give one of our elected officials their flowers because they were one of the few,

if not only legislator, that aimed to establish a state level task force dedicated specifically

to missing and murdered black women and girls in Wisconsin. And then my second topic in terms of

the top 10 stories of 2025 from my lens was the drug crisis within older black men in Milwaukee.

Not sure if y'all know this, but our city health data here in Milwaukee shows there was a significant

substance misuse and overdose count that directly impacted older black men right here in South

Eastern Wisconsin. So those are going to be the two that I that I break down along with to your

point, Dr. Ken, some proposed solutions. All right. You're listening to truth unfiltered Denise Thomas,

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You're listening to truth unfiltered Denise Thomas, Dr. Ken Harris. 17 minutes after the hour.

So I was kicking around, like I don't do it all the time. I was kicking around the Milwaukee

public schools about the audit. And we remember last that earlier this year before we brought

Casselius and Dr. Casselius. They were having some major issues with dysfunction and accountability,

a school quality. And then as if as if that was a big deal,

led poisoning. And recently, she had a news conference, believe it was last week or week before

last, that talked about the fact that 99 buildings had been taken care of. And part of the issue,

it just it just leads you. How did this widespread issue throughout NPS become so entrenched?

Well, it was entrenched because of the people we had working there, because of the people we had

an administration, because everybody just wanted what they wanted and didn't really care

about the kids. You're you're you're talking babies going to a school, but it wasn't until it hit a

school like Golda Maya, not calling out Golda Maya on a negative, but until it hit a school where

it affected people that didn't look like us. Now, all of a sudden, we got a change. It's not

their fault. They have parents and administrators who step up cared about those kids and

called out the problem. And so now we we I believe Milwaukee is moving in a great direction,

Dr. Casselius along with Dr. Robinson and Dr. Means from West Milwaukee and

while with Tulsa were superintendents that were on truth summit, who really talked about

the issues and basically how to fix it. I don't know if all them going to be around in a year

in a year or so, because you know, sometimes when you want to fix things, there's a lot of pushback

when it comes to the system. Dr. Can, let me be clear. There are

I am I am learning through prayer, meditation, and just observing and surrounding myself with

people who are a lot calmer, rational, and open-minded than me, because that is not even as a

communication coach and leadership strategist. That is not one of my strengths when it comes to

topics or matters that I'm very passionate about. So I'm going to be clear, but I'm also going to

try to control my emotions. Okay. We've talked about MPS over and over when I say we in particular,

the truth, 101.7 FM, Milwaukee Black Talk Radio. We've talked about MPS year after year after year.

Yeah. Now, for me, in some situations, I've had to, and as a retired parent, I've had to say,

wait a minute now, we can't be holding the teachers or the administration accountable for

these types of things. Like if you have to work three or four jobs, which doesn't allow you to have

a lot of time at home, and your child then has to inherit the responsibility of taking care of

themselves, their siblings, working part time, and still trying to be academically successful.

That's not a parent, or excuse me, that's not a teacher or administration thing. So I want to be

clear, there are, there are some things that it goes back home. Now, with that being said,

I don't want to blame teachers who are already under resource, and I don't want to shame parents

who are doing Dr. Ken the best that they can with what they got. And this is coming from somebody

who had their first child at 18 and their second child and omega child at the age of 21, unwed.

Okay. This is about, and I'm going to unfilter this truth right now, and I'm going to ruffle some

feathers, and I don't care. I hear it coming. This is about a system that has continuously

been accepted. That is broke. Yep. Or let me say it differently. That is broke in. And black families

are the ones who feel it first, and we're the ones who feel it the longest. The MPS is a failed

system that we have entrusted with our children, and they continue to not deliver. We have had

how many superintendents over the past, I'll be liberal. I'll be nice in the past six years.

No, I'm not going to be in the past decade. How many superintendents have we had in the past

from 2015 to 2025? I think at least three. We've had three. And we've had interim. So we've had

including interim and actual like voted in superintendents. We've had about five.

And when you think about what you're in the air team, when you enter as a top leader for a system

that has repeatedly been broken, bottom line is, and this is coming from my leadership strategy's

head. There is never been any accountability for those at the top. So if no one is being held

accountable, how do you expect excellence in the classroom? And what I find so interesting,

and I've said this before, and I will say it again, black people, we are so forgiving. Yep.

And we are so forgetful. And we are so patient. Why do black families always get told, just be

patient, a change is going to come. And it never comes. The dysfunction persists. And see,

a lot of y'all going to be like, well, don't create the problem and play the victim.

Because at my point, at what point does the mismanagement, the broken school system that

directly impacts the educational futures of black children? When do they be, where are they held

accountable? I would love for somebody right now, whether you're a parent, whether you're an

educator, whether you're an MPS alumni, whether you're a retired teacher, whether you got a child

at home at a teen school, please, somebody help me understand. When are we going to start holding,

because I'll do respect, Dr. Ken, you having the superintendent on your panel, and they're saying

all these wonderful things. Of course, of course she did. Of course she did. Like, what am I going to do,

go up there and say, I mean, the transparent accountability, the lack of performance,

we don't have any type of public dashboard that measure or track financial decisions,

staffing outcomes. And there have not been the right consequences for these leaders who have failed.

Do you know, Dr. Ken, and we've talked about this off air. It's like, it's like a meteorologist.

You still get a check and you're giving out wrong information. How are these MPS leaders still

getting checks promote? And then when they leave, they get packages that are, please help me

understand that y'all. Well, I don't work. And I'll be quiet. I say this. We are normalizing,

and I'm speaking specifically to the black folks. We have, we continue to forgive, we continue to

accept, will just be patient. Change is going to come. We do not hold these leaders accountable.

And then they get to retire, or even when they get fired, they get to go to

San Juan, Puerto Rico, and sip on my ties all day. Oh, you heard that.

All right, I'm done. You heard that too. Well, okay.

See, see part of it. I have to say, I'm a Dr. Brenda Cacelli's fan.

And she has come through and done what she said she was going to do.

She decentralized the central office, sent all those folks that was there back to the schools.

Y'all office don't need to be here. You need to be out. How are you a literacy coach working

as central office? Like this is who are you teaching to read? Those types of things and then sent

them back along with other administrators back to the schools where they need to be, where they

need to help. One and I would, I would, I would, I would suggest to anybody, not because it was

mine to go back and listen to the truth summit, especially the section on, on the superintendents.

Dr. Demand means from all what Tulsa says, something that was powerful and I'm, and I'm paraphrasing.

A teacher's job is to teach. A teacher's job is to teach the child in the way that the child can

get it. So if you have to do extra, then you have to do extra. If you have to teach in multiple

modes, then you teach in multiple modes. That is your job. That is your calling. Not, I teach one

way and if you get it, you get it, if you don't, you don't because if a kid fails from learning

something basic like reading, writing, or arithmetic, it's the teacher's fault. You have a captive

body. It's from five. This is where I disagree. I disagree. In the end, you are, if people on your

block are not safe and there's shootings on your block, it's the police job to arrest those

people. If they don't and somebody dies, it's the police fault. It's your job. Your job is to

educate children. I know their issues at home. I know there are problems at home, but that's not

the majority of bottom line is some of them teachers need to be there. I'm going to pull a doctor

can. I'm a poor doctor can. See, I was trying not to do the sports analogy and I was trying to talk

about the dance for children forced me to it. I win. I win. I don't know super intended means

personally and I don't know the superintendent of MPS. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting her

in person. We'll have to change that. We'll have to change that. For a fact, you know, they don't

like me as much as I talk about MPS. But anyway, and I don't care because I care about my people.

Here's a thing. The Chicago Bears drafted what was regarded at the time, the number one

Heisman trophy winning quarterback in all of NCAA division one schools. In this case, USC, Caleb Williams.

Right. The first season, it was terrible. I was like, what is wrong with, because you know,

the first person you're going to go to typically is your quarterback. Like, why can we not win games?

We had one year of coach Johnson. Ben Johnson. And he has turned that organization to the point

where since 2018, now we are now the NFC North champions. Why am I bringing that up? Because as much

as Caleb Williams is an extraordinary quarterback, it took his leader to help him understand

how to gel with his teammates. So I'm going to go back to the superintendent because as much as the

teacher has to teach, stabilizing the classroom, it starts with resources that we haven't seen or

have because of administrative failures. The instructional funding, the mental health supports,

the counselors, the culturally responsive curriculum, that has all been reshuffled. So don't

don't come to me and talk about the teachers, especially in your position as the superintendent.

I want to see more listening sessions just like the true summit in black neighborhoods.

I want to see more funding for the teachers. And if you really want me to go there,

and I'm going to go there because it's the truth I'm filtered, and I talked about this on truth

veto with DT and telly, how do we have a whole school board of directors that are majority non-black

serving a majority black student base? 90% of the NPS students are black.

Go to the website and look at the makeup of the board of directors. Where have you called?

The board of trustees, board directors. The board of motor school directors.

Black. Thank you. It must include representation.

It has to. And if the state has to get involved, the state, you know, folks in Madison,

there needs to be representation at that level too. And so as far as I'm concerned,

there has been little to zero accountability. There has been little to zero real transparency.

Quit reshuffling the titles and the people and give us some understanding and some clear

consequences for leadership failures. Because I'm at the point where I'm just like,

I'm and I'm not saying it's what you dig, Dr. Canne. But I'm tired of people saying,

well, they're doing a great job just because you like them.

Well, she's only been in for 10 months. She's just only been here for about 10 or 11 months.

I believe she's been doing a phenomenal job and she's made changes that are going to impact

the school next year. phenomenal. And on. Yes. Yes. Because I've seen and I've talked to her and

I've interviewed her and I've seen numbers and I've seen changes that she's made.

Changes that other people never wanted to make and that she came in and did it. And she went

against the school numbers have changed. Um, specific examples. The fact that we had

led poisoning and pretty much 100% of the schools that nobody did anything about it. They would

clean a wall here instead of doing the school. Well, it was on that wall. Okay, we'll

we'll paint the wall and then we market as done. Had a maintenance guy who wasn't even certified

doing a job for the entire NPS. She fired them. She got rid of incompetent people. She got rid of

a person who did was not even a did not even have an accounting background. Let alone

fire them. You got to go. There's no reason why you can't fix this software and make them send it

the payments that we have to the state like all those things that were basic fixes. But because

you know, I can stay on my job and I can get paid a hundred and something thousand dollars two

hundred something thousand dollars a year. We need a CPA to do finances in a billion dollar

business and you've got somebody who doesn't even is not even a CPA doing finance like those

things were corrected fired moved out not. Oh, you know, everything you just said. I didn't hear one

word about black children and how because those are the things that are going to affect the

amount of money you get for those children. The resources you're able to pay by moving money from

one line item to the other so that you can pay for all the things that the in the resources that

the children need. You have to free it up and say that. Well, no, that's what I say. You say that.

Oh, I got you. I got you. I feel I feel insisted there for a while. I feel it kind of sense. No,

no. I'm saying that's the kind of narrative that I need to hear. I need to hear. I don't need

because here's the thing at the other day. Let's let's keep it one hundred black folks. We ain't

trying to hear about no CPA look at the other day. Who is protecting and how are the educational

futures of black children that have had to deal with a consistent failure of public school

institutions? How is what you're doing now or what you plan to do protecting the educational

future of black children? That's what we want to hear. Period. Siding unlimited WTMJ talking text

line is a five five six one six one six 20. We want to hear from you. We want to we want to know

as we talk through some of these things. We've got a few more to get to because if a coach could

change a team that historically I was going to say that that's why in one season in a season is what

nine months she could be I don't know her. I'm not going to just I'm not going to be disrespectful

or come for her performance. All I think is that we have to reevaluate how we hold people accountable.

Absolutely. Especially when we say absolutely phenomenal job. Absolutely. Where's the phenomenon?

Well, you got away for the outcome. You got the end of the year and you got next fall. She hasn't

been there. You can't do it in instantaneous. It's not in instantaneous. It's in the middle right now.

Oh Lord. I'm mercy. See them bears. They got her wound up. I'm an only child. You're listening

to the truth unfiltered with Denise Thomas. That the kid is going over here to cry on a corner

because she hollered at me. She's hearing my feelings though.

We'll get to number four. Let me see. She did too. I did too. So we'll get to number five in a minute.

You're listening to the truth unfiltered.

I'm going to have to give Evan some love. If he plans some, that's what's up.

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39 minutes after the hour. And so one of the things I wanted to also talk about. They had

some officer, Miss Kandex scandal where a police officer was charged in alleged criminal

misconduct tied to a gang investigation was given out information and giving out things. These

are the type of things that break down policing in cities like Milwaukee. And the

tenuous relationship the black community has with the police. It didn't help. There was also the

off-duty police shooting death case of Elijah Wilkes in the rapid release of the video and how

we've now gotten to a point where we can not control. We can help people understand the narrative

that goes along with a police shooting and what happens. And that information being made

plain and that people can see it. Family members can see it. Everybody sees it so that they

understand this is what happened. And so I think that has been something that has kind of

taken away a little of the pressure between the black community and the police because now we

have laws in place in the state of Wisconsin with open records and releasing things. And so now you

can't just or really don't need to hide behind this facade at and sometimes, you know, well,

it's an ongoing investigation. That's not an answer. If it's an ongoing investigation, when do

you believe it's going to be finished and when will we get the video? Things of that nature. So it

went on great. However, we did have a lot of homicides this year. They ran higher in 2025

and even though other crime stats were down significantly, homicides still have been running high.

And it's something that just for the life of me, I don't understand

what's happening to a generation. We just we just have a generation where

life is just not. And it's to be honest, it's not just in the black community. It's everywhere.

We don't respect people's lives anymore. It's I remember when you I don't even remember growing up

when you heard somebody got shot, it might have been one or two people a year. And you were like,

oh my god, usually you had to fight. Maybe somebody got cut. Now nobody fights anymore.

No, nobody, Howard's like how Denise Howard at me is like a few minutes ago and made me feel

and I'm still alive to tell the story. Even though I went in the corner and cried during the

break. Wow, that's how you treated your kids too. There we are. Oh, yeah,

hit up. Click crime. That's like spanking a kid and then tell them, don't cry.

That's like really? I know. Was you one of them parents? Yeah, but that generational curse

helped both of us be successful. Indeed, it did. This is true. However, and I was actually going to

say this regarding the increasing rate of homicide, not just in Milwaukee, but all over the

country, all over the country. I'm not going to say all over the world. We have desensitized

lives. I mean, like we see it so much now through social media and we see very graphic

footage and it's just now made people numb to it combined with mental health and combined with

this emotional behavior of if you disagree with me, you have to go. Yeah.

And as I've said, many times, I have learned the hard way to not engage in dialogue or even a

discussion where there's going to be a decision made with people who are committed to misunderstanding

me because that's a good point. Number one, yeah, because at the end of the day,

they don't want to listen to learn or to understand your perspective. But more importantly,

I've seen so many people on social media go back and forth, go back and forth.

And then somebody's way will get their gun or they're ready to go to a public facility and start

shooting people. Because if you think, think about it. And I hate to bring this up. I really do

because I'm still processing it. Well, I'm a minor. Oh, wow. Yeah. Think about what resulted.

How did we, how did they get there? How did his, how they were having an argument?

Now, now, Dr. Ken,

because my dad and my mom made me mad, I'm going to wait for them to go to sleep and murder them

while they're sleeping in their bed because they made me mad. Yeah.

Because we got into an argument. And whether or not that's actually what took place,

that is the story that we as, you know, as, as news viewer, that's what was told to us.

So you've now, you're now telling society that when your parents make you mad,

you know what to do. And you know, I was joking about it. But I was like, dude,

I call my kids. I was like, we good. Like, I mean, can you imagine living in a house?

Where you have to think, you know, so you're, you're at home, your kids get on a plane,

they come visit you. And they're staying somewhere, but you have to make sure, right?

Are my doors locked? And are my windows shut? So my kids can't get in my house. Like, that just

sounds like, huh? Like your kids can't get in here because it's so real, Dr. Ken. That, that is just,

that is, you know what? There are so many, and that's a whole another, you know what? Actually,

I'm going to write this down so we can talk about this on one of our upcoming Truth Unfiltered

Show shows. There are so many both parents and kids that have implemented a no contact rule.

Like literally like cutting their kids off or kind of parents off. Wow.

And although I can't relate and I definitely don't want to sound, you know,

insensitive, right? But more and more, I'm hearing where literally, and I can imagine a number of

our viewers and listeners, they, they are like, I'm so glad Thanksgiving and Christmas are over

because every time I go try to visit my family, somebody want to act a fool. There's, you know,

there's an, I leave upset. And when I got off the plane or pulled up in the driveway,

I was in a good mood, ready to celebrate, eat good. And so it's, it's bad. But going back to your

original point, we have become a society. We want everything quick. We don't want to talk

things out. We don't want to listen. If somebody disagrees, we want to go get a weapon.

Yeah. If we have an argument. Yeah.

Some from somebody who literally like was, was, was, was groaned and trained to be a professional

debater. I'm scared to use that gift now. Uh, who you tell it? I say, I said the wrong thing.

Man, we argued. Siding unlimited WTMJ tuck and text line is a 556161620. When we come back,

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letters because she gets like upset when we mentioned. But the first one is M and then there's a

middle letter and then there's an S after it. So, uh, we're going to, we're going to hear what Tony

has to say. You're listening to truth unlimited. Denise Thomas, Dr. Ken Harris will bring back.

Welcome back to the truth unfiltered.

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Denise Thomas, Dr. Ken Harris, I thought Evan would have jumped in and went, hey, dummy.

It's unfiltered. But, you know, you're controlling the break. You want to break? I couldn't say it

and Tony went to a break. All right. Tony on the tuck and text line, by the way, that's the

sighting of limited WTMJ tuck and text line. It a 556162620. Keith Poesley was a superintendent and he

was black and he was a failure for NPS. So, being black in high places and still no results. So, at

this point, I don't care what color the school leaders are. I only care about their actions,

your thoughts. We are all entitled to our own feelings and opinions. And I respect Tony's

feelings and I appreciate him listening and sharing his thoughts. All I'm saying is that

representation matters. It matters. And I also agree that all skin folk ain't can folk.

Why do you? Why do you put that out? It just because I can. It is truth unfiltered.

It is. It is. Well, here's my thing. Like, I don't, I may talk radio host. My responsibility is

to provoke and stimulate thoughts just like what Tony just shared. And it's also my responsibility

to make sure that people have access and exposure to a variety of opinions and perspectives. So,

there will be things that people agree with and there will be things that people don't agree with

that I say. Yep. And I'm okay with that. Very true. I still love, I love my neighbor.

So. But I'm not her neighbor now because she'd be whipping up on me. I'm just saying. I feel

Tony. All I'm saying is that from a larger perspective, if you're serving 90% of the makeup of

MPS are black students and you go to the website and you look at the administration and they are

majority non black to me, that's problematic. Representation does matter. And it must include

black community leadership. That's what I'm saying. And well, articulate. Like I said, all skin

folk and can fall. Yep. Are you ready for me to really infiltrate some truth, Dr.

Ken? I don't know. I'm trying to make it to the new year.

Oh, how do I want to say this? Here, just in the words of Denise DT Thomas. It's truth and

filtered. Just say it.

They can be breath. I'll leave it at all skinned folk and can't folk. And I'll leave it with

a quick story. And I've shared this story a number of times. I was on a plane, a flight,

and I was sitting next to this gentleman, very friendly, older white gentleman. And we were

just having a conversation. And I had to get up. He was sitting in the aisle seat. I was

looking at him and I had to get up and use the laboratory. And I said jokingly, I said,

hey, if my phone rings and it's Denzel, pick up a little knock calling back. His immediate knee

jerk response was, oh, he's one of the good ones. So sometimes Tony, representation is not based

on what you'll do for your community, but based on the fact that you'll be one of the good ones.

That's the best way I can say it. And when you support a system that's failing,

when you support a system that's not doing what they're supposed to do,

when you support a system where people are making very good money.

And I argue with people about teacher salary and say, teachers need to be paid more.

Well, while that's true, they're in a position where they chose that job and went into it.

They've many of them believed it was their calling and all that. But you only worked 10 months

out of the year. And another thing I want to say to my brother, Tony, King Tony.

Some organizations want more milk, want less Malcolm X and more Dr. King. I'll leave it at that.

That's it. I'm done. I'm almost afraid. I promise. First of all, we only got three minutes to go,

but I'm almost afraid to ask, which one are you? Yeah. Okay. So who's who's who's in between this?

It's called code switching. Who's who, but who's not in between? Who's in between Malcolm X and

Martin Luther King. Well, that's a, that's a question that can't be answered in two minutes,

but I'll tell you this as a black person in this country, I know when to turn things up,

and I know when to turn things down without compromising my authenticity. There you go.

There you go. Very true. The system is failing our children. They have, they are, and they will

continue to be if we don't start holding people accountable. That is true.

I'm gonna go through some quick stories. We had they accelerated the lead service line replacement

in Milwaukee. So that was a great thing. We had home ownership. Metcalf Park is doing a phenomenal

job at renovating vacant properties. There's stabilizing the neighborhood. They're helping people

build wealth. They've started neighborhood coalitions and changing all the conditions along with

the police, and they are doing a remarkable job in a place that historically was redlined

disinvested city owns a lot of the property, and they have now done some really

great things. So I want to plot them in 2025 for doing, for being just, just being great,

just being great. And so there are, there are some processes. Go ahead. Oh,

absolutely. And like I said before, man, I wish we had more time. I really wanted to

commend one of our Wisconsin legislators, um, regarding the number of murdered and missing

black women and girls in particular in in Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin. And you know,

our beloved Shade Robinson. And there were a number of other related cases, but obviously

Shade Robinson's murder received the most publicity. And I'm just trying to find the sister's name

again. Y'all bear with me. I apologize. We have a Wisconsin state legislator that is working

in our state capital in Madison, making sure that there are a specific task force dedicated

to the number of missing and cold cases where either black women or black girls are missing.

And I just want to give her a special shot. I'm so frustrated because I had her name right

up here. Y'all. And I can't find it. If y'all know, please call in. Dr. Ken, do you know who it is?

I am looking forward now, but I will, I will make sure that is made available on tomorrow from

4 to 6 p.m. on what a one seven the truth. Latanya Johnson, Democratic senators from

and she list up. She list up. Wisconsin state representative Sheila Stubbs. Thank you Sheila Stubbs

for reintroducing legislation aiming to establish a state level task force dedicated to missing

and murdered black women and girls. Thank you. Hey Denise. Yes, sir. Happy New Year.

Thank you, Dr. Ken. Happy New Year to you and Evan. I'm headed to go see this ball drop man.

I know that's right. Take care. God bless. Have a great evening. Denise Thomas. Good seeing you.

We're out.